Chords for Jerry Jeff Walker - Desperados

_ _ _ [D] This is a song a guy wrote, probably one of the [E] first ones I [F] ever did.
[D] It's a song about his grandma's boyfriend, that's how he described it to me.
It was almost described perfectly, me and my grandpa growing up together. _ _
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_ Yeah, I played the Red River Valley _
[C] _ [Em] [A] I sat in the kitchen and [Bm] cried
Put [G] his fingers [A] through seven [D] years [Bm] of living
_ [G] Wonder if [Em] every well he drilled gone [A] dry
We was friends, me and [D] this old man
[Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train _
[Bm] Dead desperadoes waiting [G] for a train
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[A] Soon _ _ _ [D] as I could walk he'd take me with him
_ [C] _ [B] [A] To a place called the Green Frog [Bm] Cafe
There [F#m] [G] was an old man [A] with beer, guts [D] and diamonds
[Bm] _ [G] Lying about their [Em] lives while they [A] played
And I was just a kid, they all called me [D] sidekick
[Bm] _ Desperadoes waiting for [G] a train
_ [Bm] Dead desperadoes waiting for [G] a train
[Em] _ _ [A] _ He's [D] a drifter, _ he's a diller of oil
[C] He's [B] [A] an old school man of this [Bm] world
Taught [A] [G] me how to drive his [A] car when he's [D] too drunk to
[Bm] And [G] always winking every [Em] money for [A] the girls
Our lives was like some old western [D] movie
[Bm] Like desperadoes waiting for [G] a train
[A] Like [Bm] _ desperadoes waiting for [G] a train
[Em] And _ [A] _ _ _
[D] one day I looked up, he was pushing 80
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[A] Bound the back of stains all down [Bm] his chin _
[G] To me he's one of [A] the heroes of this [D] country
[A] [Bm] So [G] why's he all [Em] dressed up like them old [A] men
Drinking beer, playing moon and [D] fortitude
[Bm] Like desperadoes waiting for [G] a train
_ _ [A] _ [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting for [G] a [Em] train
_ _ [A] The _ [D] day before he died I went to see him
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_ [B] _ [A] The guy was grown, he's [Bm] almost gone
We [G] closed our eyes [A] and we dreamed of supper [D] kitchen
[Bm] He [G] said play another [Em] verse, that [A] old song
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_ _ _ I said old man you hang on now, our train's coming
We got things to [D] do, me and you
[Bm] [A] I need you, hang on
[D] Cause we're like [Bm] desperadoes waiting [G] for a train
_ _ [Bm] Like desperadoes waiting [G] for a train
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Yeah Jack, I swear that son of a [G] bitch gonna run right through here now
It's our turn, [Bm] you hang on there
It's our turn _ [G] Hang on Whoa
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